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108-419: Survivors and family members of the victims were the most vocal and persistent in the call for the creation of an independent commission to investigate the 9/11 attacks. The leaders of several 9/11 family groups began to work together to lobby political leaders. The Jersey Girls were part of the 9/11 Family Steering Committee , whose members were instrumental in the creation of the 9/11 Commission and in pressing

216-594: A skyjacking . O'Reilly also worked for WFSB in Hartford, Connecticut from 1979 to 1980. In 1980, O'Reilly anchored the local news-feature program 7:30 Magazine at WCBS-TV in New York. Soon after, as a WCBS News anchor and correspondent, he won his second local Emmy, which was for an investigation of corrupt city marshals. In 1982, he became a CBS News correspondent, covering the wars in El Salvador on location and in

324-554: A board member for several publicly traded companies, including Aramark , UnitedHealth Group , Hess Corporation , The Pepsi Bottling Group , CIT Group , and Franklin Templeton Investments . In 2006, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission began investigating the conduct of United Health Group's management and directors, and the Internal Revenue Service and prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's Office for

432-452: A critically important assignment. In December 2003, as the 9/11 Commission neared completion of its investigation, Kean said that the September 11 attacks could have been prevented, saying, "As you read the report, you're going to have a pretty clear idea what wasn't done and what should have been done. This was not something that had to happen." On April 4, 2004, in an interview with Meet

540-535: A debate for charity entitled, The Rumble in the Air-Conditioned Auditorium at George Washington University . The New York Times remarked that O'Reilly and Stewart "have been guests on each other’s programs since 2001" but "rarely agree on anything except their mutual respect for each other". In 2014, Stewart debated him on the belief of white privilege. During the debate O'Reilly exclaimed, "You think I'm sitting here because I'm white? What are you,

648-566: A documentary by ABC, the series drew criticism prior to its airing for misrepresenting facts leading up the September 11 attacks. Bill Clinton , Madeleine Albright , many former high-ranking Clinton administration officials, and other scholars, publicly questioned the accuracy of the miniseries and asked that it not be aired. Albright called the miniseries' portrayal of her "false and defamatory." Former U.S. ambassador to Yemen Barbara Bodine also strongly criticized her own portrayal, complaining in

756-417: A eulogy for his friend Joe Spencer, an ABC News correspondent who died in a helicopter crash on January 22, 1986, en route to covering the 1985–86 Hormel strike . ABC News president Roone Arledge , who attended Spencer's funeral, decided to hire O'Reilly after hearing the eulogy. At ABC, O'Reilly hosted daytime news briefs that previewed stories to be reported on the day's World News Tonight and worked as

864-404: A general assignment reporter for ABC News programs, including Good Morning America , Nightline , and World News Tonight . In 1989, O'Reilly joined the nationally syndicated King World (now CBS Television Distribution )-produced Inside Edition , a tabloid-gossip television program in competition with A Current Affair . He became the program's anchor three weeks into its run after

972-441: A line in the rant. In 2009, a "dance remix" of O'Reilly's rant was nominated for a Webby Award for "Best Viral Video" but lost to "The Website Is Down: Sales Guy vs. Web Dude". In October 1996, O'Reilly was hired by Roger Ailes , chairman and CEO of the then startup Fox News Channel , to anchor The O'Reilly Report . The show was renamed The O'Reilly Factor after his friend and branding expert John Tantillo's remarks upon

1080-589: A moderate Republican, Kean was elected to the New Jersey General Assembly . He ran with Philip D. Kaltenbacher , a Short Hills Republican who had served as an aide to Assemblyman Irwin I. Kimmelman from 1964 to 1966; Kimmelman later served as Attorney General in Kean's administration as New Jersey governor. In the Republican primary, Kean and Kaltenbacher defeated Donald Fitz Maurice, Vivian Tompkins Lange,

1188-461: A moron? I'm sitting here because I'm obnoxious, not because I'm white!". In 2015, O'Reilly briefly appeared on Stewart's final show as host of The Daily Show . O'Reilly joked, "Have fun feeding your rabbits, quitter!" O'Reilly also wrote a lengthy appreciation for Stewart in Deadline Hollywood writing, "[Stewart] will leave a void in the world of political satire. Undeniably, Jon Stewart

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1296-400: A new independent panel. "I'm very disturbed, and I want to get some answers," said Breitweiser. "I want to know what the truth is." She called the 2004 findings "an utterly hollow report." The Jersey Widows testified before a hearing chaired by Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney on July 22, 2005. The Jersey Girls have been the target of attacks at various times. In 2004, Frank Rich wrote in

1404-544: A problem or social ill." The study's authors said that those terms were only considered name-calling when linked to derogatory qualifiers. Fox News producer Ron Mitchell wrote an op-ed in which he accused the study's authors of seeking to manipulate their research to fit a predetermined outcome. Mitchell argued that by using tools developed for examining propaganda, the researchers presupposed that he propagandized. On April 19, 2017, Fox News announced that O'Reilly would not return to their primetime lineup amid public reporting on

1512-510: A radio program called The Radio Factor that had more than 3.26 million listeners and was carried by more than 400 radio stations. According to the talk radio industry publication Talkers Magazine , he was No. 11 on the "Heavy Hundred," a list of the 100 most important talk show hosts in America. In 2019, O'Reilly returned to radio with a daily 15-minute series The O'Reilly Update . The program airs during or near lunch hour on most stations in

1620-570: A report that analyzed his "Talking Points Memo" segment. Using analysis techniques developed in the 1930s by the Institute for Propaganda Analysis , the study concluded that he used propaganda, frequently engaged in name calling , and consistently cast non-Americans as threats and never "in the role of victim or hero". He responded, asserting that "the terms 'conservative', 'liberal', ' left ', ' right ', ' progressive ', 'traditional' and ' centrist ' were considered name-calling if they were associated with

1728-599: A site where he was at that point? I think those early opportunities are clear. We had him. We saw him. I think maybe we could have done something about it." On July 22, 2004, the Commission issued its final report, the 9/11 Commission Report , a 585-page report that concluded concluded that the CIA and the FBI ill-served President Bush and the American people in failing to predict or prevent

1836-563: A small apartment in Fort Lee , New Jersey, when their son was born. In 1951, his family moved to Levittown on Long Island . O'Reilly has a sister, Janet. O'Reilly attended St. Brigid parochial school in Westbury and Chaminade High School , a private Catholic boys high school, in Mineola . His father wanted him to attend Chaminade, but O'Reilly wanted to attend W. Tresper Clarke High School ,

1944-581: A speaking tour with former president Donald Trump in December 2021, which he said "[provided] a never before heard inside view of his administration". O'Reilly wrote a weekly syndicated newspaper column through Creators Syndicate that appeared in numerous newspapers, including the New York Post and the Chicago Sun-Times . He discontinued the column at the end of 2013. From 2002 to 2009, he hosted

2052-492: A time slot previously used by Paul Harvey . In September 2020, O'Reilly began hosting a daily radio show on 77WABC titled Common Sense with Bill O’Reilly . From 2001 to 2015, O'Reilly appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart fifteen times. Stewart also appeared as a guest various times on The O'Reilly Factor . In 2011, Stewart described O'Reilly as "the voice of reason on Fox News ", comparing him to "the thinnest kid at fat camp". In 2012, Stewart joined O'Reilly in

2160-646: A vicious, mean-spirited attack on people whom I've known over the last four and a half years to be concerned deeply about the safety and security of our country." After the 9/11 Commission issued its report, the Jersey Girls pressured the Administration to follow its recommendations. They specifically commended the Commission for not politicizing blame in the report. "The USS Cole was bombed under Clinton's watch, and 9/11 happened under Bush's watch," said Rosemary Dillard. "I don't blame either administration; I blame

2268-557: A week; almost 60 companies withdrew their television advertising from the show amid a growing backlash against O'Reilly. On April 11, O'Reilly announced he would take a two-week vacation and would return to the program on April 24; he normally took a vacation around Easter. On April 19, Fox News announced that O'Reilly would not be returning to the network. The program was subsequently renamed The Factor on April 19 and aired its last episode on April 21. O'Reilly later stated his regret that he did not "fight back" against his accusers

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2376-522: Is dwindling, they'd better hurry up and appear in Playboy . These statements received national attention after an interview on The Today Show , and were widely criticized. The Jersey Girls themselves also responded critically to Coulter's remarks. Kristen Breitweiser stated: "I'd like her to meet my daughter and tell her how anyone could enjoy their father's death ... She sounds like a very disturbed, unraveled person." Lorie Van Auken said she "was stunned by

2484-530: Is widely considered the most important independent U.S. government commission since the Warren Commission , which was charged with investigating the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, and perhaps the most important U.S. government commission in American history given its mammoth responsibility for investigating the causes of the first foreign attack on the U.S. mainland since the War of 1812 , which represented

2592-588: The Los Angeles Times about the "mythmakers" who created it and calling the project "false." On July 4, 2007, al-Qaeda publicly released a video of Ayman al-Zawahri , its deputy chief, urging all Muslims to unite in a holy war against the United States in Iraq and elsewhere. The 95-minute video also prominently featured video excerpts of Kean citing al-Qaeda as one of the most formidable security threats that

2700-614: The American Whig–Cliosophic Society , a political, literary, and debating society with a lengthy list of distinguished members . He graduated from Princeton with a B.A. in history in 1957. After working on his father's unsuccessful U.S. senatorial campaign in 1958 and returning to St. Mark's School as a history teacher for three years, Kean attended Teachers College at Columbia University in New York City, where he earned his M.A. in history. In 1967, running as

2808-740: The Bipartisan Policy Center . Kean has served as chairman of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation , the nation's largest health philanthropy; the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy; the Carnegie Corporation of New York ; Educate America; the National Environmental Education and Training Foundation; MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership; and the Newark Alliance. He has also served as

2916-669: The Falkland Islands from his base in Buenos Aires , Argentina. O'Reilly left CBS over a dispute concerning the uncredited use in a report by Bob Schieffer of footage of a riot in response to the military junta's surrender shot by O'Reilly's crew in Buenos Aires shortly after the conclusion of the war. After departing CBS News in 1982, O'Reilly joined WNEV-TV (now WHDH ) in Boston, as a weekday reporter, weekend anchor and later as host of

3024-644: The George H. W. Bush administration . Kean also advocated continued U.S. aid to anti-communist resistance forces in Afghanistan , Angola , and to those engaged in supporting democratic change in the former Soviet Union . "To those supporting the Afghan resistance," Kean told the Heritage Foundation audience in 1991, "I say, carry on." Kean was appointed to the boards of several important foreign policy bodies, including

3132-527: The New Jersey Highway Authority . Kean also worked as a political commentator on New Jersey public television . Four years later, in 1981 , Kean again ran for governor. In his campaign, Kean pledged to foster job creation, clean up toxic waste sites, reduce crime, and preserve home rule . In his 1981 campaign, Kean secured the endorsement of former U.S. President Gerald Ford , who had not endorsed him in his 1977 gubernatorial campaign. In

3240-552: The New York Times : The phenomenon has sufficiently alarmed the White House that earlier in the month its media allies tried to discredit the 9/11 families, particularly the so-called 'Jersey Girls,' the four telegenic suburban widows who have forced the administration to reverse its stonewalling of the 9/11 commission at nearly every juncture. Rush Limbaugh labeled Kristen Breitweiser a Democratic operative. Bill O'Reilly sounded

3348-580: The Southern District of New York subpoenaed documents from the company. The investigations came to light following publication of a series of probing articles in The Wall Street Journal in May 2006, which reported on the apparent backdating of hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of stock options by UnitedHealth Group's management. The backdating allegedly occurred with the knowledge and approval of

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3456-611: The University of London . He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1971. He played semi-professional baseball during this time as a pitcher for the New York Monarchs. After graduating from Marist College, O'Reilly moved to Miami where he taught English and history at Monsignor Pace High School from 1970 to 1972. He returned to school in 1973 and earned a Master of Arts degree in broadcast journalism from Boston University . While attending Boston University, he

3564-512: The largest terrorist attack in world history , and recommending steps to defend the U.S. from future attacks. Kean's appointment to head the commission, and later the work and final report of the commission, drew substantial global attention. Bush initially selected Richard Nixon 's former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to head the 9/11 Commission . But Kissinger faced opposition due to his potential conflicts of interest with his global business consultancy, and withdrew from consideration for

3672-470: The "O'Reilly Factor" in any of the stories he told. The program was routinely the highest-rated show of the three major U.S. 24-hour cable news television channels and began the trend toward more opinion-oriented prime-time cable news programming. The show was taped late in the afternoon at a studio in New York City and aired every weekday on the Fox News Channel at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time and

3780-532: The 1981 general election, Kean defeated Democratic Representative Jim Florio in the closest election in New Jersey gubernatorial election history, winning by 1,797 votes. The election was controversial due to the involvement of the Republican National Committee , who appointed a Ballot Security Task Force that was alleged to have intimidated voters. One of Kean's strategists in his 1981 campaign

3888-628: The 1990s and 2000s began their political careers in Kean's administration, including Douglas Forrester , Bob Franks , and Chris Daggett . In the aftermath of Kean's tenure as a two-term New Jersey governor, the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University–New Brunswick 's Center on the American Governor in New Brunswick , established the Thomas H. Kean Archive. In 1990, following

3996-407: The 48th governor of New Jersey from 1982 to 1990. Kean is a member of the Kean political family. His father, Robert Kean , was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, and his grandfather, Hamilton Fish Kean, was a U.S. senator. After graduating from Princeton University, Kean worked as a history teacher and obtained a master's degree from Teachers College at Columbia University. He served in

4104-541: The 9/11 Commission was also troubling to the Jersey Girls who demanded his resignation. They cited close personal ties with the Bush family and the National Security Advisor as conflicts of interest. Mindy Kleinberg said, "As executive director, he has pretty much the most important job on the commission. He hires the staff, he sets the direction and focus, he chooses witnesses at the hearings." Joe Conason wrote that

4212-511: The 9/11 relief fund to the victims. Actor George Clooney responded, accusing him of misstating facts and harming the relief effort by inciting "panic" among potential donors. On August 27, 2002, O'Reilly called for all Americans to boycott Pepsi products, saying that lyrics of Ludacris (then appearing in ads for Pepsi) glamorize a "life of guns, violence, drugs and disrespect of women". The next day, O'Reilly reported that Pepsi had fired Ludacris. Two years later, Ludacris referenced O'Reilly in

4320-462: The Air-Conditioned Auditorium at George Washington University in 2012. O'Reilly interviewed President Barack Obama before Super Bowl XLVIII in 2014. He wrote numerous The New York Times bestselling historical novels including Killing Lincoln (2011), Killing Kennedy (2012), Killing Jesus (2013), and Killing Reagan (2015), which were adapted into National Geographic television films in 2011 , 2013 , 2015 , and 2016 . Two of

4428-486: The Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean [of weapons of mass destruction] ... I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again." In another appearance on the same program on February 10, 2004, he responded to repeated requests for him to honor his pledge: "My analysis was wrong and I'm sorry. I was wrong. I'm not pleased about it at all." With regard to his trust in

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4536-649: The General Assembly, and Kean was elected as Assembly Speaker. Woodson would have been the Assembly's first African American Speaker, and charges of racism were leveled against Friedland by fellow Democrats. In the following Assembly in 1974, Democrats united behind Woodson for Speaker, and Kean became the Assembly's minority leader. In 1973, Kean served briefly as acting New Jersey governor. In 1974 , Kean ran for Congress in New Jersey's 5th congressional district but lost

4644-501: The New Jersey General Assembly from 1968 to 1978 and held the role of speaker of the Assembly from 1972 to 1973. In 1981, Kean was elected governor of New Jersey; he was re-elected in 1985. A moderate Republican, Kean is regarded as a popular governor who promoted New Jersey tourism. Following his two terms as governor, Kean served as president of Drew University from 1990 until 2005. After the September 11 attacks , Kean

4752-688: The President's Education Policy Advisory Committee and chaired the Education Commission of the States and the National Governors Association 's Task Force on Teaching. Kean began receiving national recognition following the launch of a multi-million dollar promotional campaign for New Jersey tourism, in television commercials promoting New Jersey as a tourist destination, that aired nationally during throughout his eight years as governor. In

4860-553: The Press , Kean again stated that the September 11 attacks could have been prevented, saying that the federal government should have acted sooner to dismantle al-Qaeda and responded more quickly to the terrorist threat it represented. "When we actually saw bin Laden on the ground, using the Predator or other means, did we have...actionable intelligence? Should we have sent a cruise missile into

4968-432: The Republican primary to Millicent Fenwick by 0.32%. During the 1976 presidential campaign , Kean served as Gerald Ford 's campaign manager for the state of New Jersey. In 1977 , Kean ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for governor of New Jersey. Although he spent most of his career as a political moderate, in this race Kean ran to the right of New Jersey Senate Minority Leader Raymond Bateman . Kean

5076-534: The September 11 attacks, which the report concluded were preventable. On August 15, 2006, Kean and Commission Vice Chair Lee H. Hamilton released a book, Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission , published by Alfred A. Knopf . In the book, Kean and Hamilton write that the 9/11 Commission was so frustrated with repeated misstatements by The Pentagon and Federal Aviation Administration that it considered an investigation into possible deception by these government bodies concerning their response to

5184-454: The U.S. government for months to have National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice testify in front of the Commission; when she refused to testify under oath in March 2004, "they walked out in silent protest." The White House, in a "dramatic about-face," gave in and Rice testified. When it became clear to them that the Commission had omitted crucial information from its report, the widows called for

5292-566: The U.S. government-funded National Endowment for Democracy (NED); a Presidential advisory commission on a post- Castro Cuba , which was chaired by former U.S. Presidential Republican candidate Steve Forbes ; and President Bill Clinton's One America Initiative . He also served as an advisory board member for the Partnership for a Secure America . Kean served as co-chair of the National Security Preparedness Group (NSPG) at

5400-409: The U.S. had ever confronted, presumably cited with the intention of bolstering the morale of al-Qaeda supporters. Comments by Kean cited on the video include a reference to the fact that al-Qaeda remained as strong in 2007 as it was before the September 11, 2001, attacks. The video also appeared to validate that al-Qaeda was closely monitoring U.S. political developments, especially including the work of

5508-510: The Year" award. After the September 11 attacks , O'Reilly accused the United Way of America and American Red Cross of failing to deliver millions of dollars in donated money, raised by the organizations in the name of the disaster, to the families of those killed in the attacks. He reported that the organizations misrepresented their intentions for the money being raised by not distributing all of

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5616-485: The ads, in which Kean was sometimes joined by various celebrities with New Jersey roots, including Brooke Shields and Bill Cosby , he recited the state's tourism motto: "New Jersey and You: Perfect Together". In 1998, the campaign was revived by then New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman , capping a long-term, multibillion-dollar effort to promote the state and especially its Jersey Shore beach resorts as attractive vacation destinations. In 1988, Kean delivered

5724-526: The age of 76. The Keans had been married for 53 years. Bill O%27Reilly (political commentator) Defunct Newspapers Journals TV channels Websites Other Economics Gun rights Identity politics Nativist Religion Watchdog groups Youth/student groups Miscellaneous Other William James O'Reilly Jr. (born September 10, 1949) is an American conservative commentator, journalist, author, and television host. O'Reilly's broadcasting career began during

5832-434: The alarm that 'some 9/11 families have aligned themselves with the far left.' But this stab at damage control went nowhere. In her book Godless: The Church of Liberalism (2006), conservative commentator Ann Coulter created a firestorm of controversy with her remarks about the Jersey Girls. Coulter wrote: They first came together to complain that the $ 1.6 million average settlement to be paid to 9/11 victims' families by

5940-500: The attacks. Kean served as a paid consultant and spokesman for the ABC miniseries The Path to 9/11 , which aired nationally in primetime in two segments, on September 10 and 11, 2006. The second part of the miniseries also aired without commercial interruption with the exception of a 20-minute break at 9 pm ET, when President Bush addressed the nation on the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. While not technically considered

6048-416: The closing lines on his teleprompter , eventually yelling the phrase "Fuck it, we'll do it live!" before continuing the closing segment to his show. The original video, titled "Bill O'Reilly Flips Out," was removed, but another user uploaded it once again the day after and retitled it "Bill O'Reilly Goes Nuts". Immediately after the video surfaced, O'Reilly acknowledged the video's existence, claiming that he

6156-437: The commission to oversee a thorough and credible investigation. According to Matthew Purdy of The New York Times : "The commission grew largely out of pressure from families of victims, including four New Jersey widows who call themselves 'the Jersey Girls.' It's no mistake that the White House put New Jersey's most popular politician ( Tom Kean ) in charge." Kean became the Commission's Chairman after Henry Kissinger resigned

6264-560: The commission. It also suggested that al-Qaeda intended to focus not just on engaging the West in Iraq, but also in other countries. "As for the second half of the long-term plan," al-Zawahri says on the video, "it consists of hurrying to the fields of Jihad like Afghanistan , Iraq , and Somalia for Jihadi preparation and training". The commission reassembled in Washington, D.C., on July 22, 2014, for

6372-503: The cultural center had the power to revitalize Newark and strengthen the state as a whole. Kean remained involved in advocacy for the arts years after his time as governor, criticizing arts funding cuts in 2007. Kean practiced bipartisanship and outreach beyond traditional political constituencies. He worked extensively with traditional Democratic constituencies, especially on urban policies . He also divested New Jersey's public retirement funds from South Africa during apartheid , embraced

6480-603: The depth of foreign policy and national security expertise needed to manage an investigation so integral to the future of American national security. Supporters of Kean in the Bush administration and elsewhere, however, countered that Kean's work since 1990 as a board member of the National Endowment for Democracy , the post- Castro Cuba Commission, and his foreign policy and national security commentary and analysis following his governorship established adequate national security and foreign policy credentials for him to assume such

6588-552: The dining hall and was a regular spectator at Drew sporting events. Kean served as Drew's president until 2005, and also taught a highly selective political science seminar at the university. In 1990, Kean for the first time began expressing views on foreign policy and national security matters that generally mirrored those of the Republican Party. In a December 15, 1991, speech to The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., Kean endorsed free trade initiatives then under way by

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6696-406: The directors, including Kean, who sat on the company's compensation committee during three crucial years, according to The Wall Street Journal . Major shareholders filed lawsuits, accusing Kean and the other directors of failing in their fiduciary duty. From 1995 until 2018, Kean was a weekly columnist for The Star-Ledger , a Newark -based newspaper and the most widely circulated newspaper in

6804-518: The doctor. Jay Bookman of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution wrote that O'Reilly "clearly went overboard in his condemnation and demonization of Tiller" but added that it was "irresponsible to link O'Reilly" to Tiller's murder. O'Reilly responded to the criticism by saying "no backpedaling here ... every single thing we said about Tiller was true." In early 2007, researchers from the Indiana University School of Journalism published

6912-534: The education industry. Following the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States by al-Qaeda , political pressure grew for an independent commission to independently investigate why the attacks were not prevented by U.S. national security organizations, including the Central Intelligence Agency , Department of Defense , National Security Agency , and others, and to provide recommendations for preventing future terrorist attacks. The commission

7020-470: The end of his second gubernatorial term, Kean was named President of Drew University , a liberal arts university in Madison, New Jersey . During Kean's presidency, applications to Drew increased by more than 40 percent; the endowment nearly tripled; and more than $ 60 million was committed to construction of new buildings and renovation of older buildings. Kean would frequently eat lunch unannounced with students in

7128-1029: The ferry saved two dozen individuals when US Airways Flight 1549 made an emergency landing on the Hudson River . In 2013, Kean was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame . Kean met his future wife, Deborah Bye , at a party in Manhattan . They began dating in October 1966. Bye and Kean married at the Old Drawyers Church in Odessa, Delaware on June 3, 1967. The couple had three children: daughter, Alexandra, and twin sons, Tom Jr. and Reed. Kean moved to Livingston, New Jersey in 1967 during his first campaign for office. As of 2015, Kean lived in Bedminster, New Jersey . Deborah Kean died on April 24, 2020 at

7236-493: The films earned O'Reilly nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards . He also hosted The Radio Factor from 2002 to 2009. In 2017, O'Reilly was dismissed from Fox News following reports of five instances of sexual misconduct from The New York Times . Since then, O'Reilly has hosted the No Spin News podcast where it has also expanded into a television program, first airing on Newsmax , then on The First . O'Reilly

7344-630: The government was not large enough ... These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities ... These self-obsessed women seemed genuinely unaware that 9/11 was an attack on our nation and acted as if the terrorist attacks happened only to them. ... I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much ... the Democrat ratpack gals endorsed John Kerry for president ... cutting campaign commercials ... how do we know their husbands weren't planning to divorce these harpies ? Now that their shelf life

7452-540: The government, he said, "I am much more skeptical of the Bush administration now than I was at that time." Beginning in 2005, he periodically denounced George Tiller , a Kansas -based physician who specialized in second- and third-trimester abortions, often referring to him as "Tiller the baby killer". Tiller was murdered on May 31, 2009, by Scott Roeder, an anti-abortion activist. Critics such as Salon ' s Gabriel Winant have asserted that his anti-Tiller rhetoric helped to create an atmosphere of violence around

7560-458: The highest-rated cable news show for 16 years, and he was described by media analyst Howard Kurtz as "the biggest star in the 20-year history at Fox News" at the time of his departure. During his time at Fox News, he appeared several times as a guest on the Comedy Central talk show The Daily Show with Jon Stewart . Together he and Jon Stewart debated for a charity event, The Rumble in

7668-486: The implementation of the statewide holiday in honor of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. , and supported legislation establishing New Jersey's Educational Opportunity Fund. In January 1990, Kean was succeeded as governor by James Florio . A governor of New Jersey may not serve more than two consecutive terms. Kean left office in January 1990 as one of the most popular political figures in New Jersey political history. A number of leading New Jersey figures of

7776-503: The involvement of original anchor David Frost had ended. In 1995, former NBC News and CBS News anchor Deborah Norville replaced O'Reilly on Inside Edition ; O'Reilly had expressed a desire to quit the show in July 1994. On May 12, 2008, an outtake of O'Reilly ranting during his time at Inside Edition surfaced on YouTube . The early 1990s video depicts O'Reilly yelling and cursing at his co-workers while having issues pre-recording

7884-578: The keynote speech at the 1988 Republican National Convention in New Orleans . Also in 1988, Kean authored a book entitled The Politics of Inclusion . As governor, Kean played a central role in founding and funding the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark , one of the nation's largest performing arts centers, that received roughly $ 200 million in state funding. Kean believed that

7992-548: The late 1970s and 1980s, when he reported for local television stations in the United States and later for CBS News and ABC News , the former of which earned O'Reilly two Emmy Awards and two National Headliner Awards for excellence in reporting. He anchored the tabloid television program Inside Edition from 1989 to 1995. O'Reilly joined the Fox News Channel in 1996 and hosted the news commentary program The O'Reilly Factor until 2017. The O'Reilly Factor had been

8100-562: The legislative process.'" There were other 9/11 victims' families who supported the Bush campaign. For example, Debra Burlingame, whose brother flew in the plane that was crashed into the Pentagon, responded to the widows: "The Jersey Girls criticized President Bush because he wasn't rounding up Arabs in airport lounges before Sept. 11. These are the same people who are now decrying the use of the Patriot Act ." The Jersey Widows were interviewed on

8208-427: The name of bin Laden? He almost fell off the couch. A few months before the Commission released its report, Kean said that the Jersey Girls "call me all the time. They monitor us, they follow our progress, they've provided us with some of the best questions we've asked. I doubt very much if we would be in existence without them." The eventual appointment of Philip D. Zelikow to the position of Executive Director of

8316-552: The people who were reporting to them." As the 2004 election neared, the widows criticized Bush for the failure to enact the recommendations of the commission; many interpreted this as an endorsement of Bush's opponent John Kerry; the New York Times reported, "In a statement clearly meant to influence voters in next week's election, the group did not explicitly endorse Senator John Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate, but said Mr. Bush had 'allowed members of his own party to derail

8424-418: The position on December 13, 2002. Noting Kean's post-gubernatorial foreign policy involvement and his reputation as a consensus-oriented political leader, Bush nominated Kean as Kissinger's replacement in leading the important and politically sensitive commission. Just as some had criticized Kissinger's nomination, Kean's leadership of the commission also drew some criticism. Some alleged that Kean did not have

8532-713: The position; according to Peter Lance , "The Jersey Girls could take some of the credit for his hasty departure." Van Auken told Lance: We were shocked. Kissinger had huge conflicts of interest -- major dealings with the Saudis ... The day before he resigned, we had a meeting with him in his office in Manhattan. Kristen [Breitweiser] had done impeccable research. She'd looked up all of his companies. So I asked him, 'Mr. Kissinger, do you have any Saudi clients?' He mumbled something. And then he asked if someone would pour him some coffee. So then I said, 'Do you happen to have any clients by

8640-580: The public school most of his closest friends would attend. He played Little League baseball and was the goalie on the Chaminade varsity hockey team. During his high school years, he met future singer Billy Joel , whom O'Reilly described as a "hoodlum". O'Reilly recollected in an interview with Michael Kay on the YES Network show CenterStage that Joel "was in the Hicksville section—the same age as me—and he

8748-568: The public speaking tour, "The Spin Stops Here". O'Reilly made his first appearance on Fox News since his ouster on September 26, 2017, being interviewed by Sean Hannity . In 2019, O'Reilly started a 15-minute radio show, The O’Reilly Update . By 2020, simulcasts of O'Reilly's No Spin News show began to air on Newsmax TV . No Spin News began airing on The First TV in June 2020. O'Reilly participated in

8856-633: The sexual abuse allegations came to light. O'Reilly's early television news career included reporting and anchoring positions at WNEP-TV in Scranton, Pennsylvania , where he also reported the weather. At WFAA-TV in Dallas , O'Reilly was awarded the Dallas Press Club Award for excellence in investigative reporting . He then moved to KMGH-TV in Denver , where he won a local Emmy Award for his coverage of

8964-468: The sister of former U.S. Attorney William F. Tompkins , and Joseph Shanahan to win seats in the New Jersey Assembly. At the start of the Assembly session in 1972, the New Jersey Assembly's then Democrat leadership sought to name S. Howard Woodson of Trenton as Speaker until Assemblyman David Friedland made a deal as one of four Democrats who voted to give the minority Republicans control of

9072-436: The song " Number One Spot " with the lyrics "Respected highly, hi, Mr. O'Reilly/Hope all is well, kiss the plaintiff and the wifey," in reference to his sexual-harassment suit with Andrea Mackris while married. In an interview with RadarOnline.com in 2010, Ludacris said he and O'Reilly had made amends after a conversation at a charity event. Speaking on ABC's Good Morning America on March 18, 2003, he promised that "[i]f

9180-479: The state. Co-authored with former New Jersey Governor Brendan Byrne , Kean's immediate predecessor as New Jersey governor, the column, titled "Kean-Byrne Dialogue", addressed issues of the day and was published weekly by The Star-Ledger . Kean is also an advisor to, and has been inducted into, Alpha Phi Omega , a national service fraternity, and is a partner in Quad Partners, a private equity firm that invests in

9288-491: The station's local news magazine New England Afternoon . In 1984, O'Reilly went to KATU in Portland, Oregon , where he remained for nine months, then he returned to Boston and joined WCVB-TV as reporter and columnist-at-large for NewsCenter 5 . In 1986, O'Reilly moved to ABC News , where, during his three-year tenure, he received two Emmy Awards and two National Headliner Awards for excellence in reporting. He had delivered

9396-509: The television series NOW on PBS and in the documentary film 9/11: Press for Truth (2006). Kristen Breitweiser won the Ron Ridenhour Prize for "truth-telling", in 2005, for her work with the Jersey Girls. Thomas Kean Thomas Howard Kean ( / ˈ k eɪ n / KAYN ; born April 21, 1935) is an American politician, statesman, and academic administrator from the state of New Jersey . A Republican, Kean served as

9504-413: The tens of millions of dollars he paid to settle the sexual harassment claims of six women. The show continued, rebranded as The Factor , now hosted by Dana Perino . On the same day, Fox announced that Tucker Carlson's show would be airing an hour earlier to take over O'Reilly's position and that The Five will replace Carlson's usual time at 9 p.m. with a new co-host, Jesse Watters . After O'Reilly

9612-458: The tenth anniversary of the issuance of its report. It assessed how well the government was performing given in addressing terrorist threats and to meeting the commission's recommendations for preventing a future attack. Kean holds over 30 honorary degrees and numerous awards from environmental and educational organizations, including: In 2009, New York Waterways named the ferry Governor Thomas Kean in Kean's honor. On January 15, 2009,

9720-469: The ugliest things the left has done ... this idea that you need some sort of personal authenticity in order to make a political point ... The New York Daily News reported that the Jersey Girls "tried to stay above the name-calling fray" by emphasizing that the nation shouldn't focus on Coulter's words but on security problems like porous borders, wasteful Homeland Security funding and intelligence agencies that don't work together. 'Our only motivation ever

9828-656: The vitriol"; and "Having my husband burn alive in a building brought me no joy. Watching it unfold on national TV and seeing it repeated endlessly was beyond what I could describe. Telling my children they would never see their father again was not fun. And we had no plans to divorce." Nevertheless, Coulter has repeated her criticism of the Jersey Girls. I feel sorry for all the widows of 9/11 ... [but] I do not believe that sanctifies their political message. ... They have attacked Bush, they have attacked Condoleezza Rice, they're cutting campaign commercials for Kerry. But we can't respond because their husbands died ... I think it's one of

9936-518: The way Sean Hannity did when facing the loss of advertisers around the same time. O'Reilly launched a podcast called No Spin News on April 24, 2017, after his departure from Fox News. In August 2017, O'Reilly began digitally streaming a video version of No Spin News . In May 2017, O'Reilly began to appear as a recurring guest on Friday editions of the Glenn Beck Radio Program . In June 2017, O'Reilly and Dennis Miller co-headlined

10044-496: The widows "fear that even with the best of intentions, Zelikow's connections to the Bush White House will 'taint the validity' of the commission's final report. Their demand that he resign or be fired has been rejected by the commission's co-chairmen, former New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean and former Indiana Rep. Lee Hamilton. 'We respectfully disagree with them,' replied Al Felzenberg, the commission's press spokesman, who said Zelikow

10152-568: Was Roger Stone , a self-proclaimed "GOP hitman." In striking contrast to his slim 1981 victory, Kean won re-election in 1985 with the largest margin of victory ever recorded in New Jersey gubernatorial history, defeating Peter Shapiro , then Essex County Executive , 70%–29%. Kean won every municipality in the state except Audubon Park and Chesilhurst in Camden County and Roosevelt in Monmouth County . As governor, Kean served on

10260-399: Was Elizabeth Stuyvesant Howard and his father, Robert Kean , was a U.S. representative from 1939 until 1959. Kean's grandfather Hamilton Fish Kean and great-uncle John Kean both served as U.S. senators from New Jersey. His second great-uncle was Hamilton Fish , a U.S. senator, governor of New York , and U.S. secretary of state . Kean is also descended from William Livingston , who

10368-632: Was a delegate to the Continental Congress , was the first governor of New Jersey , and is considered a founding father of New Jersey. Kean first attended The Potomac School in McLean, Virginia . When he reached fourth grade, he entered St. Albans School , a college preparatory boarding school in Washington, D.C. In 1946, at the age of eleven, Kean was enrolled at St. Mark's School , an Episcopalian private school in Southborough, Massachusetts that

10476-649: Was a hood. He used to slick it [his hair] back like this. And we knew him, because his guys would smoke and this and that, and we were more jocks." After graduating from Chaminade in 1967, O'Reilly attended Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York . While at Marist, he was a punter in the National Club Football Association and also wrote for the school's newspaper, The Circle . He was an honors student who majored in history. He spent his junior year of college abroad, attending Queen Mary College at

10584-529: Was a reporter and columnist for various local newspapers and alternative news weeklies, including the Boston Phoenix , and did an internship in the newsroom of WBZ-TV . In 1995, he attended the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and received a master of public administration degree in 1996. Marist College had bestowed an honorary degree upon O'Reilly, which would later be revoked once

10692-435: Was amusing his co-workers and said "I have plenty of much newer stuff... If you want to buy the tapes that I have, I'm happy to sell them to you." The rant was later parodied by Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report as well as Family Guy and by Trevor Noah on The Daily Show , and was named one of Time ' s "Top 10 Celebrity Meltdowns". In October 2008, Wednesday 13 named his first live album after

10800-500: Was appointed by President George W. Bush as chairman of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States , widely known as the 9/11 Commission. On July 22, 2004, Kean and the commission released their findings in the 9/11 Commission Report . Kean is the father of U.S. Representative Thomas Kean Jr. Kean was born in New York City to a long line of Dutch Americans and New Jersey politicians. His mother

10908-547: Was born on September 10, 1949, at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan to parents William James Sr. and Winifred Angela (née Drake) O'Reilly from Brooklyn and Teaneck , New Jersey, respectively. He is of Irish descent with a small degree of English ( Colonial American ) ancestry. Some of his father's ancestors lived in County Cavan , Ireland, since the early eighteenth century, and on his mother's side he has ancestry from Northern Ireland . The O'Reilly family lived in

11016-494: Was chosen 'for his scholarly credentials and his knowledge of national security issues.' He hastened to praise the widows for doing 'a very positive thing,' adding that while he understood their concerns, he expected that "they're not going to be satisfied with everything we do." As part of the 9/11 Family Steering Committee they helped form, the Jersey Girls monitored and often criticized the 9/11 Commission after they lobbied successfully for its creation. The Jersey Girls pressured

11124-436: Was fired, the financial markets responded positively to the decision by Fox News, and its parent company 21st Century Fox rose over two percent in the stock market the next day. In April 2017, The New York Times reported that Fox News and O'Reilly had settled five lawsuits involving women who accused O'Reilly of misconduct. After the settlements were reported, The O'Reilly Factor lost more than half its advertisers within

11232-406: Was great at what he did. Whatever that was." In 2024, when Stewart returned to The Daily Show for the 2024 United States presidential election , he invited O'Reilly to appear on the show following the assassination attempt on former President and candidate Donald Trump . O'Reilly made cameo appearances in the films An American Carol (2008), Iron Man 2 (2010), Transformers: Dark of

11340-459: Was rebroadcast at 11:00 p.m. Progressive media monitoring organizations such as Media Matters and Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting have criticized his reporting on a variety of issues, accusing him of distorting facts and using misleading or erroneous statistics. In 2008, citing numerous inaccuracies in his reporting, MediaMatters for America awarded him its first annual "Misinformer of

11448-513: Was the alma mater of his father and his two older brothers. After graduating from St. Mark's, Kean attended Princeton University . At Princeton, he completed a senior thesis on Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz , a key architect of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth 's constitution, entitled Niemcewicz (The Biography of a Polish Patriot, 1756-1842, Including His Impressions of America, 1797-1807) . While at Princeton, Kean participated in

11556-418: Was to make our nation safer,' they said in a statement. 'We have been slandered. Contrary to Ms. Coulter's statements, there was no joy in watching men that we loved burn alive. There was no happiness in telling our children that their fathers were never coming home again. We adored these men and miss them every day.' And Senator Hillary Clinton found it "unimaginable that anyone in the public eye could launch

11664-407: Was unable to obtain the endorsement of many county Republican chairmen, or from then U.S. President Ford despite having served as Ford's campaign director for the state of New Jersey the previous year. Bateman defeated Kean and won the nomination, though Bateman went on to lose the general election to Brendan Byrne . After the election, Governor Byrne appointed Kean as a commissioner on the board of

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